Our Man in Havana

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A vacuum cleaner salesman becomes a spy by accident and a liar by design.</b><br><br>Jim Wormold lives quietly in pre-revolutionary Havana, selling vacuum cleaners to customers who can scarcely afford them. When a British intelligence officer offers him money to report on local activity, Wormold agrees. His daughter's expenses demand it.<br><br>Lacking real information, he invents it. Diagrams of military installations are drawn from appliance parts. Agents are imagined. Reports are filed. London believes every word.<br><br>What begins as improvisation gathers consequence. As his fabrications circulate through intelligence channels, other parties begin to act on them. In a city already thick with tension, fiction proves capable of generating its own danger.<br><br>Greene's espionage novel balances satire with unease, exposing how easily authority can be deceived and how quickly deception can turn fatal.<br><br><b>'British Intelligence being sent up something rotten' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780099286080

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

128 x 196 x 18 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd